The Run-away Student NINJA HAYATE - Recommendations

• TV (13 eps)
• 2007

Now that Hayato has finally accepted the role of Himawari’s master, life continues as normal at the Village of Mist’s school for girls… that is, until the boy’s academy is unexpectedly demolished and all the male students disappear! Shortly after this sudden act, Himawari and the others are targeted by a series of bizarre ninjas. However, these incidents are not unrelated. Who is behind these strange events and just what does the mysterious master-of-disguise Takechi-sensei have to do with it all? Himawari, along with Shikimi, Yusura, Himeji, Azami and the bumbling Hayato, must stay on guard if she hopes to find out just what on earth is going on and why the six of them are being specially targeted.

• TV (13 eps)
• 2006

Years ago Hinata Himawari was saved from an airplane by a male ninja with a tattoo on his neck, and she’s wanted to become a ninja ever since. In the present, Himawari has been accepted into the secret ninja school for girls, Shinobi Gakuen; but upon her arrival she finds much more than she was expecting: Marikoji Hayato, the school newest teacher who has a tattoo just like her benefactor! Himawari decides to claim him as her master and vows to train her hardest to become a ninja worthy of his praise, but both Hayato and she face a great deal of skepticism from the students and staff. Regardless, Himawari is determined to be the best ninja she can be, and Hayato is determined to pay off his debt!

• TV (13 eps)
• 1982

Way out in the sticks, the fourth-graders of the local school in Tokio village all have their own superpowers of doubtful merit, including flying eyeballs and missile-hair. Ippei and his friends study hard to be ninjas, but they are constantly under treat from the arrogant cheats from the neighbouring village of Techno.

• DVD Special (2 eps)
• 2007

• TV (12 eps)
• 2023

After World War II, Allied Command in Japan developed a new agency to help manage terrorism and violence within the Pacific region. The agency was staffed with ninja and they were initially tasked to handle domestic affairs. Eventually that program grew to its current form, managing 20,000 ninja across a range of domestic and international affairs. One of those ninja happens to be Kudo. The seventeen-year-old high school loser is now poised to be the next line of defense against a potential surge in foreign assassins invading Tokyo.

• TV Special (1 ep)
• 2013

• TV Special (2 eps)
• 2017

• OVA (1 ep)
• 1993

• TV (29 eps)
• 1968 - 1969

Sasuke is the story of a ninja child that starts right after the battle of Sekigahara where Tokugawa Ieyasu becomes shogun of Japan. Sarutobi Sasuke was a famous ninja in the employ of Sanada Daisuke who fought for the losing side against Ieyasu.

• OVA (2 eps)
• 1989 - 1991

Shinokita Reiko and Yajima Junko are second-year high school students who travel from school to school fighting bad guys, ninjas, yakuza and corruption. At this high school they encounter a secret ninja order and a corrupt administrator, as well as a tragic death in the distant past. With the help of Kotetsu, a skilled ninja, they set the school to rights, but not before leaving several broken hearts behind.